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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Katie Rosseinsky,Jessie Thompson and Radhika Aligh

It Was What It Was: We discuss Love Island’s new couples and a bombshell arrival

The summer of Love Island is finally here. Five boys and five girls entered the villa in Monday night’s episode, quickly coupled up and then began the time honoured mating ritual of ‘going for a chat’ on some colourful bean bags - until new bombshell Chloe arrived on the scene ready to shake things up.

In the latest episode of It Was What It Was, we share our first impressions of this year’s unfeasibly bronzed cohort of singles - and wonder why the chemistry seems to be a bit off between them so far.

Who will Chloe couple up with? Is Faye this season’s answer to iconic series three islander Olivia Attwood? Will Hugo (or should we say ‘Diego’) manage to get any more air time? And are we too old to be watching this? These are just some of the existential questions we attempt to grapple with.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the new series, so let us know where your head’s at in the comments below.

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